Noctuidae 



Genus HOMOPYRALIS Grote 



Five species belong to this genus. We figure one of the 

 commoner of these as representative. They come freely to 

 sugar. 



(i) Homopyralis contracta Walker, Plate, XXX, Fig. 5, ?. 



Syn. zonata Walker; tactus Grote. 



The insect is widely distributed all over the Appalachian 

 subregion. 



Genus ISOGONA Guenee 



(1) Isogona natatrix Guenee, Plate XXXVII, Fig. 18, $. 



Syn. tenuis Grote. 



The moth occurs in the southern Atlantic States. 



Genus HYPSOROPHA Hubner 



(1) Hypsoropha monilis Fabricius, Plate XXX, Fig. 6, $ . 

 The species is quite abundant in northern Florida in the 



spring of the year. It ranges westward and northward as far as 

 Kansas. 



(2) Hypsoropha hormos Hubner, Plate XXX, Fig. 7, ?. 

 The moth occurs from New York to Texas, and is not un- 

 common in the eastern half of the valley of the Mississippi. 



Genus CISSUSA Walker 



Ten species are attributed to this genus in the latest Catalogue 

 of the moths of North America. They are all western and 

 southwestern species. We have selected three of them for 

 purposes of illustration. 



(1) Cissusa spadix Cramer, Plate XXX, Fig. 9, $ . 

 Syn. vegeta Morrison. 



The species occurs in the southwestern portions of the 

 United States. 



(2) Cissusa inepta Henry Edwards, Plate XXX, Fig. 10, $ . 



Syn. morbosa Henry Edwards. 



The moth flies in Colorado. 



(3) Cissusa sabulosa Henry Edwards, Plate XXX, Fig. 1 1, 9 

 The habitat of this insect is the same as that of the preceding 



species. 



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